You don’t have to shave that yak - Eirik Langholm Vullum

The amount of tools, preprocessors, bundlers, transpilers (*add arbitrary made up names for abstract processes here*) and resulting boilerplates has exploded the last few years, making front-end development seem really intimidating to both new and seasoned developers. You seemingly have to spend days (weeks..) just to get a decent front-end project up and running.
Or do you..?
Let’s demystify all of these scary words and look at how you can avoid most of them and do «just-in-time» development - introducing these tools only when they are needed and actually provide value to your project.